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Betty MacDonald, the author of The Egg and I and the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Series is beloved all over the world. Don't miss Wolfgang Hampel's Betty MacDonald biography and his very witty interviews on CD and DVD!

Is it true that several more Wolfgang Hampel interviews with Betty MacDonald's sister Alison Bard Burnett will be published in 2013?

We are also huge fans of Betty MacDonald fan club honor member, author and artist Letizia Mancino and our one and only Mr. Tigerli.
By the way you shouldn't be too criticial with the russian girl. Believe me she does her very best.

Betty MacDonald fan club letter collection is fascinating and Betty MacDonald's life motto is the best one I've ever heard of.

Bertil I agree, many countries could need creative and magical Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle who could solve huge problems with violence.

Sunday, December 9, 2012

It's very interesting to know the life mottos of Darsie Bard, Betty MacDonald and the other family members.

Anita, you should be more careful with Eartha.

We need you both.

Thank you so much for the very charming and witty Mr. Tigerli story written by our ' italian' Betty MacDonald, Letizia Mancino.

Anita, I joined the Betty MacDonald meeting when Betty MacDonald fan club founder Wolfgang Hampel acted as Mr. Tigerli's speaker.
Wolfgang Hampel is a born humorist and many international Betty MacDonald fans had tons of fun.

It's snowing all the time.

Do you remember Betty MacDonald living on Vashon Island during Winter without energy?

I'm so happy we have no problems with energy and we enjoy our cozy home.

Monday, December 3, 2012

So many Betty MacDonald fan club fans are waiting for Mr. Tigerli's new experiences.

Read and enjoy the new story of our famous Betty MacDonald fan club honor member Mr. Tigerli written by brilliant Betty MacDonald fan club honor member, writer and artist Letizia Mancino and translated by Betty MacDonald fan club honor member Mary Holmes.

Thanks a million dear Betty MacDonald fan club honor members for sharing this delightful story.

I'm one of your many devoted fans.

Yours,

Bengt

Mister Tigerli Foundation

Copyright 2012 by Letizia Mancino

translated by Mary Holmes

All rights reserved

“You in Alaska with the salmon?”

“Yes, Betty!”

“And Mister Tigerli?”

“He stayed at home.”

“With his Russian friend?”

“I tell you, I would have liked to have employed three men to look after him.”

“Three men?”

“Yes, a cook, a hairdresser and a doctor to check that he’s in good health.”

“Oh come you’re exaggerating, cats are very robust!”

“Sure Betty, but Mister Tigerli has become so famous because of you and your fans, that I now carry a great responsibility!”

“ You do look very bent!”

“Oh don’t always be so ironical Betty!”

“And the Russian girl?”

“She didn’t want the job because her boy friend is so jealous of the cat.”

“That I can well understand.”

“She told me that her partner would only turn a blind eye if she earned a lot of money for “cat-sitting”.”

“Two eyes would be better!”

”She named an enormous sum – 1000 dollars.”

“You must be joking, Letizia!”

“It’s no joke!”

“That’s the price of a gorgeous playgirl from the “Red Onion”!”

“I know it is. The price is talked about in Russia. Alaska used to belong to Russia. Do you also know the “Red Onion” in Skagway?”

“I only know the prices of the Gold Rush Brothel!”

“It has become a museum!”

“If Mister Tigerli had wanted the Russian girl to slick down his fur with her tongue,

$1000 would have been the right price, Letizia!”

“I believe, Betty, that that is precisely what Tigerli had wanted her to do!”

“And what had she done?”

“Absolutely nothing! When I came back from Alaska and Seattle, Tigerli’s fur on both his hind legs and on his thighs and around his tail was totally matted!”

“So she had refused to lick our Mister Tigerli’s fur!”

“Exactly!”

“Then you have to pay more for his pleasures.”

“In that case we will have to establish a “Mister Tigerli Foundation!”

“Not a bad idea! Mister Tigerli has to remain beautiful for his fans, Letizia”

Three men to serve him should be enough. What do you think, Betty?”

“We could also ask the Russian girl!”

“If our very busy cat is in agreement! He doesn’t get on with her boy friend!”

“We can give her $1000: “The Mister Tigerli Foundation” can be responsible for all the costs. Grooming with the tongue is very important!”

“It is a sign of very great affection, my mother tells me. She slept for 19 years with her Siamese cat on her stomach. She loved him so much that she never turned over in bed in case she disturbed him!”

“19 years? And what did your father say?”

“Oh he knew his place. He was the cat’s night porter!”

“Roman Nose must have Egyptian ancestors in the family!”

“Certainly! My mother gave Chicco the name “Star of South America.”

“Why Star of South America and not of North America?”

“I have no idea. I never asked her! The chief wife of the Pharaoh Chicco I is a powerful woman!”

“But why was your father the cat’s night porter?”

“He had to get up in the night so that he could hold the glass door onto the balcony open. It was always a bit open but Chicco demanded that my father waited there for him until he returned from using the cat litter box. My father would say ”Avanti Chicchinello nostro” and get back into bed. Then Chicco would jump onto my mother’s stomach and go back to sleep.”

“ Bob would have certainly done the same for his 500 chickens if they had ever used a chicken litter box.”

“We could also use The Mister Tigerli Foundation to finance a night porter for Mister Tigerli.”

“That’s a good idea!”

“One has to spoil cats! When once my mother forgot that she had left a good fur coat on the bed, Chicco licked it completely clean with his tongue.”

“I’m sure she was delighted!”

“She certainly was. She said that to lick a whole fur coat was a great achievement for a cat. I can remember how she called him “Sun of the House!”

Great!

“We will buy a fur coat for Mister Tigerli.”

“We’ll have to discuss that with the other “Honour Members.”

“But we can afford to pay for Mister Tigerli to have his fur licked.”

“Yes, sure!”

“Actually it’s a great honour for the Russain girl to be allowed to lick our famous Mister Tigerli!”

“She should give us money for the honour!”

“But her friend is jealous!”

“The Mister Tigerli Foundation could finance a rehabilitation cure so that he could recover from his jealousy of cats!”

“That would certainly be expensive.”

“Oh we’d find the means for it!”

“And another question. What is Tigerli’s favourite food?”

“Alaskan salmon.”

“Doesn’t he like caparccio of mouse?”

“He leaves these specialities on the floor for me!”

“Tell me, Letizia, how did Tigerli react to you being named an Honour Member?”

“Fantastic! As a thank you present to Linde Lund he got hold of four hale and hearty Camemberts, packed them up in a box and sent them to her.”

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Katrine, Betty MacDonald fan club fans, old and new ones, you'll be able to read some of Mr. Tigerli's new experiences very soon.

We recently got the update that Betty MacDonald fan club honor member Mary Holmes did an excellent translation.

Thank you so much dear Letizia Mancino, Mary Holmes and Mr. Tigerli for sharing another very funny story!

Katrine, I'm very sorry but I don't know the author you mentioned.
It sounds very poetic and true.
Childhood is so exciting because we are sailing away every day to find new treasures.
Sounds a bit like Mr. Piggle-Wiggle the pirate husband of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle.
We should ask Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle if she has a cure against very grey, old, cold and rainy November.
In fact we don't have to ask Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle because for Betty MacDonald fan club fans November isn't boring at all.

There are so many reasons to laugh and to be happy every day even in November. You only have to try.

I was in a bad mood today but after reading some of Wolfgang Hampel's unique satirical firework I can't stop laughing.

The same miracle always happens while listening to Wolfgang Hampel and Betty MacDonald's beloved sister Alison Bard Burnett. Both are too funny and you'll forget very grey November in a minute.

It's like golden sunshine even on a very grey, old, cold and rainy November day.

Wishing you a very cozy home instead of staying on a chicken ranch in the mountains,

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Olexander, I love Abba so much and their song THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL fits very well to Barack Obama's great victory.

Pieter, it's true. Betty MacDonald is Nr. 1 in this country in 2012.
We aren't talking about the past.

I'm very happy after joining Betty MacDonald fan club.

The international Betty MacDonald fan club meetings are very well organized and you can find so many new Betty MacDonald fans in 40 countries around the world.

We can be so proud of the very successful Betty MacDonald fan club research teams.

I'd like to talk about this Betty MacDonald fan club running gag very often mentioned here on Betty MacDonald fan club blog:

There is nothing new under the sun after all those years.

It's the opposite.
Betty MacDonald fan club research teams recently found the most important and interesting Betty MacDonald fan club items in our history.

Imagine, it happened after all those years.

A famous writer said ( I can't remember the name right now, perhaps you know it ):

Every day in childhood was exciting because we sailed away to find new treasures.
Adults don't feel this way.

I won't say this.

I know many adults who try to find new treasures every day.

I belong to this group.

Although there are so many bores in the world for example this person - who ever it might be - who wrote this running Betty MacDonald fan club gag but seriously believes it's true, Betty MacDonald would call this person a terrible bore and I'd agree
( remember Alison Bard Burnett and Wolfgang Hampel in Betty MacDonald interviews ), there is also lots of imagination, creativity, activity and optimism in the world.

Mr. Tigerli, I have to say you are bit slowly in these days because we are waiting for your new very exciting treasure stories quiete a time. ( but of course I'd like to be patient because I adore your golden stories so much )

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Bring back Betty MacDonald is very well written but in fact we don't have to bring back Betty MacDonald.

Betty MacDonald is very popular in many countries.

There is a country where Betty MacDonald is extremely successful.
THE EGG AND I is the most popular book ever in this country although there are so many Harry Potter books. What do you think? It's true.
Do you have any idea about which country I'm talking about?

If you know the answer send a mail to my account, please ( see Betty MacDonald fan club Newsletter November Page 1 ) and you'll receive a special Betty MacDonald fan club surprise.

Dear Betty MacDonald fan club fans, good luck.

The answer isn't too difficult.

I'm sure very clever Mr. Tigerli knows it.

Hopefully Mr. Tigerli's new exciting stories will come soon.

We could need some sunshine in our hearts because of very grey November.

The trouble is we recently got many information and we are very busy now.

Darsie Bard's and Gammy's letters are among the most important documents we've ever got.

Thank you so much for your contributions.

Be a bit patient, please dear Betty MacDonald fan club members from all over the world.
You'll be very happy with the results.

You can read some very funny new poems by Wolfgang Hampel in Betty MacDonald fan club newsletter November.
Wolfgang Hampel's poems are as entertaining and witty as his Betty MacDonald biography and the interviews.
New Betty MacDonald interviews by Betty MacDonald Memorial Award winner Wolfgang Hampel will be published in 2013.

Paula, I guess your sister is in trouble very often if Mike behaves the same way Betty MacDonald's Tudor did. I had to laugh very hard because you describe these situations as too much pepper and salt in life.
I agree. To less is nothing but too much can be very dangerous because of too much stress.

How is very popular Betty MacDonald fan club honor member Mr. Tigerli doing?

New Mr. Tigerli stories, please. They are salt and pepper in our lives and in this case and we need much more of it.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Betty MacDonald fan club research teams had many excellent results during 2012.

We are very grateful and happy having these experts and teams especially Anita & Eartha Kitt II, Sören, Astrid, Beat, Martine, Bob and many other very active Betty MacDonald fan club research teams.

There are so many very important and interesting information incl. letters, photos and documents for a new updated Betty MacDonald biography.

C o n g r a t u l a t i o n s !

Thanks a million for your outstanding research.

I know it's a running Betty MacDonald fan club gag but I have to say it again:

There is always something new under the sun after all those years.

Yes, it's true.
It's a feeling like Christmas finding these very special Betty MacDonald gifts.

Next Betty MacDonald fan club newsletter includes many fascinating Betty MacDonald fan club research results.

Photos of Betty MacDonald's brave dog Tudor are great because we have a very special family member.

You have to know the reason why.
My sister's dog Mike acts like Tudor.
Both of them are a bit crazy but that means salt and pepper in life. (sometimes a bit too much of it )
Do you remember the story with the broken windows in Betty MacDonald's Onions in the Stew?
It's never boring having dogs like this.
Poor Betty MacDonald and my sister Vera!

Speaking of exciting pets we are so curious to read more of Mr. Tigerli's new adventures
I wonder how the russian girl is doing.

By the way don't you think Betty MacDonald's Tudor and Letizia Mancino's Mr. Tigerli would be an ideal couple?

After Letizia and her husband returned home from Betty MacDonald country I got a very special Betty MacDonald and Letizia Mancino gift.

A very important Betty MacDonald document, a very special dedicated copy of Letizia Mancino's witty book ' The cat in Goethe's bed' with such a funny drawn cat ( Letizia Mancino is so gifted ) and many more Betty MacDonald surprises.

It's the most wonderful gift I've ever got in my whole life and I'm so happy and grateful.

Thanks a million dear friends, Letizia, Christoph, Angelika and Wolfgang for finding all the wonderful Betty MacDonald items and and sending them to me.

I adore Letizia Mancino's art nearly every day.

It's like sunshine in my heart.

Try it even if you are a bit sad and depressed and everybody knows these 'blue' feelings from time to time. It's natural.

I'm very sorry.
Although Letizia Mancino is such an excellent writer and artist she is not my favourite Betty MacDonald fan club honor member.

Do you have any idea who is?

It's Mr. Tigerli of course.

We all are in love with very 'strong' and 'active' Mr. Tigerli.
I guess he doesn't need a better lover because he is in love with a very special person.
You know what I mean? Reread the stoy please and you'll know what I'm talking about.

It means a lot to all of us that Betty MacDonald fan club tree is growing every day.
Betty MacDonald fan club has members in 40 countries.

To me it's kind of a miracle.
The best of it many Betty MacDonald fan club members know each other in person because of several international Betty MacDonald fan club meetings.
It's like a Betty MacDonald fan club ribbon around the world. I know Betty MacDonald would love it.

It's the most important and interesing work in my life and enriches me every day to receive information and to be in contact with Betty MacDonald fans from all over the world.

Thank you so much for supporting Betty MacDonald fan club.
Betty MacDonald fan club fans are so great and we are overwhelmed.
There are so many Betty MacDonald fan club fans who donate very important documents, letters and many other items.

THANK YOU SO MUCH !

We have the most important Betty MacDonald projects in the future for example establishing a Betty MacDonald museum.

We need your support to make this Betty MacDonald fan club dream come true.

Let's do it.

At the end of this very long message ( I hope you are not too tired after reading it ) I want to say thanks a million to one and only Wolfgang Hampel.

Alison Bard Burnett describes house and rooms and shares many delightful family stories.
What an unique document!

Delightful Alison Bard Burnett and Wolfgang Hampel had so much fun doing this.

Although we have this treasure DVD it's really depressing and very, very sad ( much, much more sad than our kitchen experiences ) that the Bard house had been demolished.
If you ask me Mr. Tigerli should crawl them for this.
I'm really sad and angry and I know I'm not the only one.

Seattle and Washington State should honor a gifted writer like Betty MacDonald but it seems reality looks different.

Let's change the subject. I don't want to cry.

We'll have a new Betty MacDonald Fan Club Contest in October.

You can win the most interestng Betty MacDonald prices and Lasse won't win this time.
OK, Lasse?

Beloved Betty MacDonald Fan Club honor member, author and artist Letizia Mancino, our so called 'italian Betty', visited the state of Washington.
We'd love to read the story of her Betty MacDonald journey.

I felt very sad when I could read that Betty MacDonald's and Mary Bard Jensen's house near Roosevelt High School in Seattle has been demolished.

Is the DVD with Betty MacDonald fan club founder Wolfgang Hampel and Betty MacDonald's sister Alison Bard Burnett visiting this house already available?

About Me

Betty MacDonald Fan Club, founded by Wolfgang Hampel, has members in 40 countries.
Wolfgang Hampel, author of Betty MacDonald biography interviewed Betty MacDonald's family and friends. His Interviews have been published on CD and DVD by Betty MacDonald Fan Club. If you are interested in the Betty MacDonald Biography or the Betty MacDonald Interviews send us a mail, please.
Several original Interviews with Betty MacDonald are available.
We are also organizing international Betty MacDonald Fan Club Events for example, Betty MacDonald Fan Club Eurovision Song Contest Meetings in Oslo and Düsseldorf, Royal Wedding Betty MacDonald Fan Club Event in Stockholm and Betty MacDonald Fan Club Fifa Worldcup Conferences in South Africa and Germany.
Betty MacDonald Fan Club Honour Members are Monica Sone, author of Nisei Daughter and described as Kimi in Betty MacDonald's The Plague and I, Betty MacDonald's nephew, artist and writer Darsie Beck, Betty MacDonald fans and beloved authors and artists Gwen Grant, Letizia Mancino, Perry Woodfin, Traci Tyne Hilton, Tatjana Geßler, music producer Bernd Kunze, musician Thomas Bödigheimer, translater Mary Holmes and Mr. Tigerli.